Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (1844-1925)
Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book 1908
Leather gilt-tooled book with relief duo-tone photographs, enclosed in burgundy suede jacket | 32 x 23 x 2.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2934245
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Leather bound book inside burgundy velvet cover. On the cover are gold tooled thistles and shamrocks; 'Pleasant Recollections' embossed on spine in gold.
This is Queen Alexandra's personal copy of the Christmas Gift book. It is a compilation of 136 photogravures (RCIN 2923983-2924120) over 48 pages, of Queen Alexandra's photographs of members of the royal family of England and Denmark, friends and royal visits. Ssome are printed as facsimiles stuck onto the page in the manner of a real photograph album, some are printed illustrations. Conceived and compiled by Queen Alexandra and Thomas Hall Caine (1853-1931) with the assistance of his son Ralph Hall Caine, it was published by the Daily Telegraph, to raise funds for charity. The frontispiece has a reproduction of a photograph of Queen Alexandra by W & D Downey. -
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Leather gilt-tooled book with relief duo-tone photographs, enclosed in burgundy suede jacket
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32 x 23 x 2.5 cm (whole object)
29 x 22 x 2 cm (album)
27.8 x 21.1 cm (page dimensions)
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